CVE-2023-53449

MEDIUM

Linux Kernel 5.3 - Use-After-Free in DASD ECKD Initialization

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: s390/dasd: Fix potential memleak in dasd_eckd_init() `dasd_reserve_req` is allocated before `dasd_vol_info_req`, and it also needs to be freed before the error returns, just like the other cases in this function.

References (6)

Core 6

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0014
EPSS Percentile 3.8%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-401
Status published
Products (15)
Linux/Linux < 5.3
Linux/Linux 5.10.173 - 5.10.*
Linux/Linux 5.15.99 - 5.15.*
Linux/Linux 5.3
Linux/Linux 5.4.235 - 5.4.*
Linux/Linux 6.1.16 - 6.1.*
Linux/Linux 6.2.3 - 6.2.*
Linux/Linux 6.3
Linux/Linux 9e12e54c7a8f616190beffb0f7ce778a86aec175 - 460e9bed82e49db1b823dcb4e421783854d86c40
Linux/Linux 9e12e54c7a8f616190beffb0f7ce778a86aec175 - 544a552be0869231799784279d52704c4d314d33
... and 5 more
Published Oct 01, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026